> -There were no Core 2 packages for 3.0 All an issue of resources and timing. As somebody else wrote, 3.3.1 is now available. > -It's not possible to get mp3-support by installing an additional RPM > like it is for gnome, you have to recompile kdemultimedia. > -Since KDE 3.3 it's more difficult to recompile kdemultimedia as the > SRPM includes patched sources, you have to go to ftp.kde.org and get > the original sources and place them in RPMBUILDIR/src manually Something we cannot change from engineering. Too bad we cannot ship mp3. > -kdemultimedia has random applications disabled without stating a reason > for this anywhere. Juk or Amarok, I don't recall exactly, in KDE 3.2 > and 3.3.0, koncd in 3.3.1 This is normally only done if they don't work. > -Automatic login with kdm doesn't work since 3.2 Send in patches and I am sure Than Ngo will add them. Probably also a bug in original kde sources or something broken in the RH packaged ones? > -KDE 3.3.1 won't be in Core 3 but come as "one of the first updates", > meaning that I'll have to download about 200 mb some days after I > downloaded Core 3. Right, that is a real pain. I would have personally moved kde in as this is a real bug-fix release, but now it has to go out as an update release. Thanks for your report and I hope you do enjoy KDE as packaged from us, Florian La Roche